> An obituary where the author casually drops that he was the youngest receiver of this-and-that award?
It's more a eulogy than an obituary. It is common in eulogies for the speaker/writer to explain how the subject's life tied in with their own.
His being the youngest winner in the first batch of MacArthur awards is completely relevant because that was why Astrid Golomb came knocking on his door.
> That everything becomes so easy with the Wolfram Language?
He gave one specific example as something that is easy nowadays on computers that Golomb had to do tediously be hand when he needed it in 1954. Nowhere does he say anything about the Wolfram Language making everything easier.
